Life's Too F***ing Short |
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 | I scanned through this book in about half an hour. I like JSP, and admire what she has done in her career, but I thought this book was truly unworthy of her considerable talents. I felt it was simply a money making exercise.
Anyone over the age of 40 will not learn anything new. You realise after about age 25 that all the face creams advertising a makeover to become Nicole Kidman's twin are lies, and that nothing over the counter will make any difference to the way you look. You begin to see that all those Bimbo beauty analysts behind the counters really believe all that beauty pseudobabble, but now you realise that they also believe in tooth fairies. Having spent years trawling through the London beau monde hairdressing salons in my youth my favourite is a now mobile hairdresser in Gloucestershire. And not putting my age on my CV will really not fool anyone when I tell them I read Chemistry at Cambridge in the mid 70s. And as for including recipes - well, pleeeeease.....!!
I heard ... read more.
Written by Janet Street-Porter.
Published 02 January 2009.
Published by Quadrille Publishing Ltd.
rrp £7.99.
160 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 1844007286
ISBN-13: 9781844007288 | |
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